Somali extremists use Donald Trump clip to recruit followers

[rooster59]

Somali extremists use Donald Trump clip to recruit followers

ABDI GULED, Associated Press


MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al-Qaida's East African affiliate has released a recruitment video targeting American blacks and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.

The 51-minute video by the Somalia based al-Shabab militant group presents the U.S. as a country of institutionalized racism against blacks that also persecutes Muslims. The video presents radical Islam as the solution.

The clip of Trump on the campaign trail consists of his infamous proposal for the "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" to protect the country.

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had earlier claimed that the Islamic State group, another extremist organization, was using such quotes to recruit followers, prompting Trump to call her a "liar."

The quotes from Trump are bracketed by a recorded speech from Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, one of the most prominent English-language recruiters for al-Qaida who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011, warning that the U.S. would turn against its Muslims.

The video was released on Twitter Friday, according to the SITE Intel monitoring group and tells the story of several Americans from Minnesota that joined al-Shabab and were killed in the fighting in Somalia, holding them up as examples to be followed.

Using footage from recent racial conflicts in the U.S. as well as historic quotes from Malcolm X, the video lays out the argument that blacks and Muslims will always face discrimination in the U.S. and should join jihadi movements to fight back.

Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration, said he won't comment on any particular presidential candidate's remarks, but the administration has long warned that terrorist organizations will take advantage of any notion that the U.S. is at war with Islam.

Rhodes said he would hope that American send a message that rejects the notion that the U.S. and Islam are at war, and instead emphasize the contributions of Muslim-Americans.

"We're at war with terrorists. We're not at war with Islam," Rhodes said. "The terrorists want us to act like we're at war with Islam. That's how they recruit people. That's how they stir up grievances. To defeat terrorists, we need to kill terrorists on the battlefield, but we also need to defeat this narrative that allows them to recruit people."

Al-Shabab is fighting the internationally-backed Somali government. It was pushed out of Mogadishu in 2011 with the help of African Union troops.

The militants have still carried out numerous guerrilla attacks in Somalia and the countries contributing troops, including Kenya, Djibouti and Uganda.

Trump, who is leading in polls in the race to be the Republican candidate in next year's presidential election, has been rebuked by both Democratic and Republican candidates for their parties' nomination, for his proposed ban on Muslims in early December.

Clinton's campaign declined to comment on the video.

-- (c) Associated Press 2016-01-03

[Credo]

Praise be to God! Hillary was right.

[Ulysses G.]

Did the laggard video originate with Hillary's campaign or with her super pac?

Edited January 3, 2016 by Ulysses G.

[ggt]

Did the laggard video originate with Hillary's campaign or with her super pac?

My thoughts exactly...this has HRC written all over it...

[Credo]

Did the laggard video originate with Hillary's campaign or with her super pac?

I am sure there will be an investigation of her finances and they will need to check her emails AGAIN, but I think it originated with Donald's mouth. Verbal diarrhea and mental constipation and all that sort of stuff.

[klauskunkel]

Uncle Mohammed

vs.

[stevenl]

Did the laggard video originate with Hillary's campaign or with her super pac?

This is even for your standards extremely low.

[JHolmesJr]

I see the somali response as totally natural and expected…if a guy stops muzzlims entering the states, that's a big blow to muzzlims who wish ill upon the usa….so they aren't going to worship him now, are they?

Somalis/ISIS etc are in the recruitment business….US and its allies are in the retrenchment business.

[mopar71]

Hillary probably charged a fee for giving them the idea in the first place.

Why would a group that hates the USA care if the USA didn't want them to come? I'm sure Israel doesn't allow Hamas members to travel freely throughout the country, does Hamas use that in their recruitment videos..."and the Zionists won't even sell us bus tickets!!".

[Nobb]

These extremists are a scared of Trump when he becomes President. Extremists are not wanted in America any way. So why use this video any way. If they hate America will they hate it more after seeing video. All the did was help Trump get more votes when he makes America safe again!

[MadDog2020]

Praise be to God! Hillary was right.

Ever think that maybe they got the idea from Hillary!

[dunroaming]

Go Donald Go! Heading for the nomination and therefore sealing the fate of the republican party for another 4 years. No wonder Clinton is looking so smug. Time to wake up guys and find somebody with a brain to mak

[SOTIRIOS]

...courtesy of his oppositions' connections in Hollywood.....

[RPCVguy]

I don't see the corporate media as caring if it is Trump or Hillary. They get their turmoil to broadcast for profit, and their sister corporations get profits funneling the treasury into war instead of hiked taxes on the rich - which is the promise of Bernie Sanders.
They are selling terror instead of anger at their corporate masters.
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Terror-Fear-Trumps-Populist-Anger-a-Corporate-Media-Triumph-20151226-0005.html

[Srikcir]

Did the laggard video originate with Hillary's campaign or with her super pac?

No but Trump will probably claim a copyright to the video and demand compensation.